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Aisha Yesufu is the chairwoman of the strategic committee of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign in Abuja. "We keep on hoping that the girls will be found. We will keep up the fight, there will be no retreat, no surrender on the Chibok girls until each one of them is accounted for," she told DW. Activists have organized numerous events this week to mark the 500 days of the disappearance of the more than 200 girls. They included Muslim and Christian prayer services, a tree planting ceremony and a march through Abuja. The ordeal began when Boko Haram fighters stormed the Government Secondary School in the remote town of Chibok in Borno State on April 14, 2014. President Buhari meets Bring Back Our Girls campaigners The insurgents seized 276 girls who were preparing for exams. 57 escaped but nothing has been heard of the remaining 219 since May 2014 when about 100 of them appeared in a Boko Haram video dressed in Muslim attire and reciting the Koran. The mass ab...

Two suicide bombers believed to belong to Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram blew themselves up outside a Chadian army camp on Wednesday, but failed to inflict any other casualties, security sources said. An officer at the Kaiga Ngouboua base in the Lake Chad region said the two bombers tried to get into the camp, but were pushed back by a guard and so blew themselves up at the entrance. No one except the bombers was killed, he said. The bombing took place as 10 people, including the accused leader of Boko Haram in Chad and northern Cameroon, went on trial in the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, accused of involvement in deadly attacks in the city in both June and July. There was no evidence the two events were connected. The campaign to crush Boko Haram has spread into Niger, Cameroon and Chad as well as Nigeria. The neighbouring countries have seen cross-border raids by the militants. N'Djamena will host the command centre of a 8,700-strong multinational force to...

THE flu jab doesn't just keep the virus away, it can reduce the risk of a heart attack for people over 50. THE risk is reduced by 29 per cent when compared to those who haven't been vaccinated, according to a UNSW study published in the journal Heart. That's in the same ballpark as other heart attack preventative measures such as stopping smoking, anti-hypertensive medications and statins, says senior author Professor Raina MacIntyre. "This is another method that could be added to the mix and it's cheap, effective and safe," she told AAP. The vaccine is free for Australians aged 65 and over. But Prof MacIntyre said a cost-effectiveness study should now investigate if it should be extended to people 50 and over - 50 being the start of the at-risk age group for heart attacks. "The study should include the benefit of preventing heart attacks in a proportion of people," she said. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the wor...

Wayne Rooney celebrates his second goal in the Jan Breydel stadium in Bruges. Wayne Rooney chose the right moment to end his mini scoring drought for Manchester United as his hat-trick sealed its passage to the Champions League group stages Wednesday. Rooney's goals helped United to a 4-0 win at Club Brugge, sealing a 7-1 aggregate win over the Belgian side in the final qualifying round. The England captain had not scored for the Red Devils since April, a run of 10 games and 878 minutes and his early season performances in the EPL had attracted some criticism. But after United survived some early home pressure, his first goal on 20 minutes, assisted by Memphis Depay, effectively ended the tie as a contest. Rooney's delicate finish over home goalkeeper Sinan Bolat was followed by two further strikes after the break as United took command. It was his first United hat-trick since 2011 and took his tally for the English powerhouse to 233 career goals. An...

OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Tuesday night stormed the headquarters of Arik Air in Ikeja Lagos following the arrest in London of a crew member of the airline for allegedly being in possession of cocaine. The Arik crew member, identified by the anti-narcotics agency as Chika Egwu Udensi, was arrested on Monday night by operatives of the United Kingdom Border Force with 20 kilogrammes of cocaine in London. The NDLEA agents were said to have searched Udensi’s latest Range Rover parked on the airline’s premises. Arik spokesman, Adebanji Ola, confirmed the visit by the NDLEA’s operatives. Udensi was arrested at the London Heathrow Airport shortly after an Arik Air flight W3101 that departed from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, touched down in the UK. Udensi’s arrest came barely two years after two crew members of the Arik Air were similarly nabbed by the UK Border Force in London. Officials of the NDLEA on Tuesday put the street value of ...

George Parker Bidder may not be a household name, but he's getting some modern-day recognition for a series of experiments performed between 1904 and 1906 in the UK. He set 1,020 bottles stuffed with postcards out into the North Sea between the UK and Norway and tracked the responses to learn more about ocean patterns. All these years later, one of Bidder's bottles rolled onto shore at the island of Amrum in Germany. The couple that discovered it, Marianne and Horst Winkler, had to break the bottle to get at the message inside. It instructed them to to send the postcard back to the  Marine Biological Association of the UK  in exchange for a shilling reward. The bottle and Bidder's notes The Marine Biological Association -- Bidder was its president from 1939-1945 -- is still around and was thrilled to receive the postcard. The organization kept its end of the bargain and sent the couple an old English shilling in return. Shillings are no longer in circulation as c...

A cannabis farm   Photo: AP By  Nick Allen , Washington 3:03PM BST 24 Aug 2015 The US government has confirmed that cannabis can kill cancer cells after the drug did so in tests on mice and rats, according to the National Cancer Institute. The development will provide further ammunition for pro-legalisation campaigners. On its website The National Cancer Institute, part of the US department of health, said: "Laboratory and animal studies have shown that cannabinoids (the active ingredient in cannabis) may be able to kill cancer cells while protecting normal cells. "They may inhibit tumour growth by causing cell death, blocking cell growth, and blocking the development of blood vessels needed by tumours to grow." The studies in rodents show that  cannabinoids may reduce the risk of colon , liver and breast cancer, and could make chemotherapy more effective. But researchers added: "At this time, there is no...

Female breasts   have been bared across the world as part of a equality drive - with even New York's iconic Times Square coming to a halt with the skin on show. Bare-chested women were out in their thousands taking part in the GoTopless Pride Parade on the streets of New York City to counter critics complaining about topless tip-seekers. Public appearances while bare-breasted have been legal in New York since 1992. Have your say in our new comments section below But Mayor Bill de Blasio and police Commissioner Bill Bratton say the body-painted women in the square who take photos with tourists are a "nuisance". Getty Topless Protest: The GoTopless pride parade was fighting for women to have the same constitutional right as men to go topless The mayor even suggested doing away with the pedestrian plaza at the 'Crossroads of the World' - to control both the topless women trolling for tips and the costumed cartoon characters, some of ...

The former Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister for Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has described as false a story published by an online news medium that her family was planning to open a multi-million dollar hospital in Abuja. The Media Adviser to the former minister, Mr. Paul C Nwabuikwu, said in a statement on Sunday that having failed to achieve any success after months of unsubstantiated figures and wild allegations against the former minister, the political and corrupt vested interests who had been attacking her, had turned their evil attention on her family. According to Nwabuikwu, the false story that Okonjo-Iweala's family was planning to open multi-million dollar hospital in Abuja published by the "corrupt website," is the latest chapter in the anti-Okonjo-Iweala campaign. He described the story as totally baseless for the very simple reason that the alleged hospital is non-existent. "Anyone who is in doubt can go to Gwarinpa, Abuj...

Posted By:  Dupe Ayinla-Olasunkanmi on:  August 25, 2015 In:  Entertainment ,  Entertainment No Comments   Print   Email The International Committee of All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, in partnership with African Union Commission, AUC, has unveiled the final nominees for its 2015 edition. At an international media conference which took place penultimate Friday at Victoria Crown Plaza Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, President/Executive Producer of AFRIMA, Mike Dada said that the award ceremony is aimed at celebrating the rich musical heritage of the African continent. According to him, the five star awards ceremony which takes place on Sunday, November 15 this year will be preceded by the AFRIMA Music Village between November 13 and 14, a two-day festival style outdoor concert of non-stop music, funfair and exhibition from countries in Africa and performances by African artistes. “There will also be an African Music Summit on November 13, theme...

The senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue South, Comrade Daniel Onjeh, has faulted Senator David Mark’s claim that he was never invited to testify from the witness box. The Nation  had reported exclusively that Mark, who was taken to the Election Petition Tribunal in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, by Onjeh following the outcome of the National Assembly election, refused to testify from the witness box when he appeared at the tribunal on August 18. But Mark, reacting to the story through his media aide, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said he was never invited. The Director-General of the Onjeh Campaign Organisation, Mr. Matthias Omikpa, said the former Senate president was not telling the truth. He advised him to be truthful, to avoid misleading his followers and the public as an elder statesman. A statement by Omikpa yesterday wondered why Mark and his team did not counter the story when it was first published that he would be appearing at the ...